Terry Stringer

‘As humans, we have an innate ability to read the subtleties of expression in each other’s faces, and also the movements of our bodies. This makes the figure such a fit subject in art for the carrying of ideas, because we can read it as a language.

Unlike our bodies which signal most communication forwards, a successful three-dimensional artwork must repay viewing from all angles. By having further images around the back, a work can surprise, add a sequence to a narrative, and reward the investigation of the viewer.

Pieces of sculpture exist in our space, and are part of the spectrum of objects in our lives. The artwork can have a functional as well as a decorative role. As architecture aspires to sculptural form while functioning as shelter, so sculpture can be a usable domestic object as well as being decorative.’